Tim Miser

I see this as Jayne, as the Sr. Community Manager at Microsoft was seeing first hand the complaints and furious customers about the day one experience and escalated the situation to Jorg who is the top guy at Microsoft. He in turn reaches out to Sebastian who is the CEO of Asobo essentially asking offensive initials not allowed Seb?? You can tell that Seb is spewing a lot of technical gibberish excuses about servers and overloading and all that BS but you can tell Jorg and Jayne are really word not allowed with Asobo and this whole situation.

I'm in western Washington. Bought the Aviator edition on Steam. Loaded fine as expected. I have a Ryzen 9 7950X , 64GB, and Radeon 6900XT. Started with Free Flight, only had 4 aircraft available at startup but thought maybe I have to qualify to unlock the others but saw later in Microsoft forum that is a known bug and should fix itself upon your second attempt at loading. Took off in the Cub (I think that's what it was) from my local airstrip. The scenery overall looked much better than 2020, much more google earth like than 2020. (I could see my truck in the driveway) Flew up I-5 through Tacoma to Seattle. Noticed the freeways were different... you could see the static image of cars on the freeway from the satellite picture with simulated cars driving over them. The water looked better, no rivers on the sides of hills like before. I have a relatively slow connection (about 25-75 mbps) but most things loaded fine but did noticed when I flew by Seattle-Tacoma airport, the terminal and parking garage were missing. The cars from the 8 story garage were floating in the air! Got buzzed by a jet and whoa you can hear them very well fly by! That was cool! The trees in 2020 I though were relatively too small but the trees in 2024 seem like they are too large. Couldn't even see my house because it was buried in trees... not that way in Google earth. I though the clouds, weather, and environment were better than 2020. Was playing around with some camera views when mine crashed to desktop. Now I'm endlessly in the queue when attempting to restart the program. No progress update in the queue, after waiting 3 hours is it just hung up or am I still "in line"? No way to close the program once you're there except ctrl/alt/del.